WORLD IN BRIEF : SOMALIA : Donors, Aid Officials Threaten Pullout
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Donor nations and relief officials opened a Somalia aid conference in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa and threatened to limit funding or even pull out of Somalia unless violence is halted and peace talks progress. Three foreign aid workers have been killed in Somalia this year, and rioting and clan fighting have interrupted relief shipments. Somali representatives attending the conference demanded that the United Nations give them a stronger police force and step up weapons seizures.
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